20 Jun 2016
Lyric Theatre, Belfast

The Lyric Theatre Belfast, Monday 20th June at 8pm.

Mary Lou Quinlan will be putting on a special performance of her one–woman play at The Lyric Theatre with all proceeds going to Corrymeela. Please come along and bring your friends.

The play is based on her New York Times bestselling book and Mary Lou explores the laughter and tears of the story of a family in love, in loss and in triumph. When her beloved mother, Mary Finlayson, dies, her family is left bereft—until Quinlan finds her mother’s “God Box,” or rather, boxes. These simple containers are stuffed with tiny notes written by Mary, asking and praying for everything from the right flooring for her daughter’s new home to a cure for her own blood cancer. Mary’s petitions are presented with love and without expectation.

Note by note, Quinlan unearths insights into her mother’s compassion, faith, and perseverance, and revelations of her innermost thoughts—nostalgic, surprising, and even a bit shocking. And through the journey, the author discovers her own more empathetic, more engaged self—the woman her mother had believed in all along.

The show has traveled from NYC’s Off–Broadway gem, around the United States to the prestigious Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014 at Assembly Roxy Theater where it earned rave four and five star reviews.

Book tickets online.